FineAP: Fine-Grained Access Point Deployment Strategy for 60 GHz Millimeter-Wave Wireless Networks

Abstract

Traditional access point (AP) deployment is based on the principle of minimum area coverage, which takes the AP signal range as the radius and performs a geometric calculation to determine the deployment location. These methods lack support for various contexts and requirements, making them only useful in a conventional rectangular environment. As a result, we design a fine-grained AP deployment (FineAP) strategy, which first uses ray-tracing to determine the signal distribution of various locations in the environment, and then uses a hybrid swarm intelligence optimization algorithm based on the principle of signal matrix maximization to determine the AP deployment location. When compared to traditional deployment methods, FineAP can handle a variety of application scenarios with close to upbound performance and the least minimum of overhead.